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Determine if Two Strings Are Close (medium)
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Two strings are considered similar if you can make one string look like the other using the following two operations:

  1. Swap any two characters.
    • For example, abde -> aedb (e and b swapped).
  2. Replace every occurrence of one character with another, and replace the other character with the first one.
    • For example, acabbb -> bcbaaa (all a's turn into b's, and all b's turn into a's)

Given two strings, word1 and word2, return true if they can be made similar, otherwise return false.

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Example 1:

  • Input: word1 = "aacbbc", word2 = "bbcaca"
  • Expected Output: true
  • Justification: You can swap the 'a's and 'b's in word2 to make it "aacbcb", then swap the last two characters to match word1.

Example 2:

  • Input: word1 = "xxyyzz", word2 = "zzxxyy"
  • Expected Output: true
  • Justification: Swapping characters 'x' with 'z' and then 'z' with 'y' in word2 will make it "xxyyzz", which matches word1.

Example 3:

  • Input: word1 = "aabbcc", word2 = "aabbc"
  • Expected Output: false
  • Justification: The lengths of the two strings are different, so they can't be made to look the same.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 10<sup>5</sup>
  • word1 and word2 contain only lowercase English letters.

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